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6.0 Vegetation Baseline Sampling Results and Discussion -1999 <br />In 2008, NRCS designated certain soils as prime farmland soils. This led to the redesignation <br />of Irrigated Pasture Hayland (IH) on the Morgan property being redesignated as Cropland - <br />Irrigated Hay (IC). Additionally, as of Permit Revision 06, an area of 25.06 acres north of Pond <br />007 have been redesignated as Cropland - Small Grain (ICSG) based on determinations made <br />by DRMS. <br />6.1 Vegetation Distribution and Floristics - 1999 Vegetation types were determined on the <br />basis of plant composition and land use. Six vegetation types were recognized in the New <br />Horizon 2 baseline vegetation studies permit expansion area: sagebrush -1 (SG -1), sagebrush - <br />2 (SG -2) swale/drainage (IPSW), irrigated pasture (IP), irrigated pasture hayland (IPH), and <br />miscellaneous types. Farmsteads, facilities (corrals, stockyards, haystacks), orchards, ponds, <br />roads and other (abandoned cropland, hayland and pastures, abandoned buildings, etc.), were <br />included in the miscellaneous category. The distribution of each type is shown on Map <br />2.04.10. The total acreage of each type in the study area and proposed permit area is shown <br />in Table 2.04.10-14. <br />The plant list resulting from the floristic surveys conducted with the study area was presented <br />in Attachment 2.04.10-5 formerly Peabody Appendix 10-1. It is reproduced and annotated as <br />necessary as Appendix 2.04.10-1 for the amended area. The list is arranged in alphabetical <br />order and contains approximately 150 species of plants. Species are identified according to <br />scientific name and common. Scientific names in parenthesis are the most current accepted <br />nomenclature using ITIS Integrated Taxanomic Information System <br />hftp://www.itis.usda.gov/plantproj/itis/itis_query.html <br />The search of the Colorado Natural Areas Inventory data base indicated that no data are <br />available for the locality in which the study area occurs with the nearest site being established <br />in 1997 on the San Miguel river near Tabeguache Creek. The CDMG list, NRCS PLANTS <br />database, and the USFWS database were used as the most current lists of threatened and <br />endangered plants. <br />The search of the Colorado Natural Areas Inventory data base indicated that no data are <br />available for the locality in which the study area occurs. However, both the Colorado <br />February 2015 (TR -66) 2.04.10-53 <br />